A federal lawsuit alleges that police in Westchester, New York found a sex tape involving a 15-year-old girl during a drug raid. According to the suit, they then forced the girl to watch the tape while harassing her, then brought the tape back to the police station for a department-wide screening.
Fired Washington Post reporter puts a message in his last article. Check the first letter of each paragraph.
Mike Huckabee joins the ranks of Republicans who oddly blame libertarianism for the GOP’s problems. Again, the GOP hasn’t been remotely libertarian in 15 years. That’s why they’re losing elections. They aren’t remotely limited government, anymore.
The Virginian-Pilot runs a pretty strong editorial raising questions about the state’s case against Ryan Frederick. New bit of information from the editorial: The Chesapeake PD has apparently completed its internal investigation of the raid. Naturally, they won’t be releasing the results to the public.
Mississippi’s Innocence Project is investigating about 80 cases of forensics fraud in that state, 60-70 involving Dr. Steven Hayne. The national Innocence Project is investigating even more.
On a lighter note, http://www.sarahjessicaparkerlookslikeahorse.com
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” Fired Washington Post reporter puts a message in his last article. Check the first letter of each paragraph.”
I worked at the State News at Michigan State in college and it was lore around the office that an opinion editor had been fired for writing a column that lined up the rightmost letters to spell “(Editor in Chief’s name) is fucking moron.” The fired editor got elected Editor in Chief by the staff the next semester, as the story goes, so maybe he was right.
Those horses are totally photoshop’d.
Westchester link takes me to the Huffington Post story on Huckabee titled “Huckabee On The Next Republican Revolution”. I would hope watching sex videos of 15yr olds isnt the next republican revolution.
The best one of the ‘hidden words’ things I’ve heard of was James May in the Autocar Road Test Yearbook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Dismissal_from_Autocar_magazine
I thought the first letters would spell something raunchy. Guess the guy’s got some class.
As for Sarah J. Parker, she does look like a horse. Those pics they chose for the website aren’t really the best ones they could’ve found (they should’ve used screen captures) as I’ve always thought she looked MORE like a horse than what she does in those pics.
Damn…if you dig a little more into that story about the WaPo writer who got fired it looks like they brought down the axe on a lot of their staff. The Post got rid of Thomas Ricks as well and he was an excellent Pentagon correspondent. They also let Broder and Kornheiser go. What’s happening with the Washington Post these days?
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Re: the VA Pilots Op Ed:
First, the glaring mistake of saying that the pot that they found was the reason for the raid. It wasn’t. They were looking for a large grow operation, not a personal stash.
Second, we now know who the informant is, and it really makes the whole thing stink worse. He did have a motivation to lie, and he should be facing charges along with the officers who got a (probably phony) warrant based only on his word.
If the cops were screen a 15 year old’s sex tape, were they basically watching child pornography?
Shouldn’t they be up on some kiddie porn charge for that?
I think she looks more like Dee Snider from Twisted Sister.
MikeL #9 Said :
If the cops were screen a 15 year old’s sex tape, were they basically watching child pornography?
Yes, if they were lowly serfs this is how the law would be applied. But they are LEOs, so they get to operate under a different set of rules. Go read that story and then read some of the comments defending the cops actions
“She shouldn’t have made the sex tape, she deserved what she got” and the like
#10 Gene Said:
“I think she looks more like Dee Snider from Twisted Sister.”
Dude, I seriously LOL’d
Speaking of hidden messages: Mike Oldfield, in his album “Amarok” (his last for Virgin, and the end of an increasingly contentious relationship with Virgin founder Richard Branson), apparently plays a secret message in morse code in one guitar passage - “Fuck you Richard Branson.”
I don’t particularly care for most of the album, nor have I decoded the supposed message, but the section does sound like morse, and it’s the kind of subtle humor MO likes. (Another instance - apparently one cymbal strike in “Tubular Bells II” is actually “Tubular Bells” compressed into a small part of a second).
Not a big fan of Mr Weeks but that was clever.
Was wondering about the tape too. In that state, would it be legal to have sex and videotape between an of age boyfriend but run afoul of the law only by allowing others to view the tape? And would the officers be then breaking the law by viewing a personal posession? Either way, what a bunch of nosybody jerks that should have returned the video regardless. At least file a theft charge to get their attention.
That Virginian-Pilot editorial was pretty strong. It could have been stronger. No perhaps about it: all they had was one informant–one unreliable informant–who claimed he saw pot plants. Of course, we went to war with Iraq based mostly on the account of one unreliable informant.
Does *anyone* check their sources anymore?
We didn’t go into Iraq based on one informant. Intelligence from around the world indicated the same thing - and of course Saddam was still acting like there was something to hide.
Actually, there was alot of intelligence to indicate he didn’t have WMD - but the Bush administration wasn’t interested in that kind of intelligence. In fact, suggesting there were no WMD was a sure way of kissing your career goodbye.
In the post-war analysis, they found out from Saddam’s people that he was much more worried about an invasion from Iran (lots of bad blood there, still is!) than from the US. That’s why he acted like he had the kind of weapons the US still has to this day. He was trying to bluff Iran, not the US. Dealing with that possibility is part of an intelligence analyst’s job.
Now, I know you can put out a big list of reasons to invade Iraq - but really, it doesn’t matter. The fact is the WMD claims got made, because all the UN arguments just were not enough to get the critical mass needed to get the invasion go-ahead. The WMD claims are what closed the deal with the public. Without the WMD, there was no war rational good enough to get Congress to sign on. That is why the lack of WMD is such a big issue.
To me the Bush administration is looking like a sleazy used car dealer still claiming the lemon I bought was a great buy, even though all the things that got me to buy proved to be not there. I don’t care if they think it was a good idea - the WMD was the deal closer, and no WMD means I was lied too.
We didn’t go into Iraq based on one informant. Intelligence from around the world indicated the same thing - and of course Saddam was still acting like there was something to hide.
All the intelligence in the world doesn’t matter if you deliberately ignore evidence that doesn’t support your conclusions. The Bush Administration made their case for the war the way young-Earth creationists make their cases against evolution.
Just one brief follow-up - Wolfowitz has admitted that WMD isn’t what Iraq was about
“For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,” Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair magazine’s July issue.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/29/1053801479971.html
Hmm, I guess it’s time to register deesniderlookslikeahorse.com.
“Roberts testified on cross examination, they never noticed any unusual traffic to and from the house - which is sometimes an indication of drug activity.”
Well if that’s the case I’m thinking everyone in my neighborhood must be invovled with drugs. Maybe I should start making some unusual traffic to and from my house so I won’t be indicated in any drug activity.
I think this case is pretty nuts:
http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_9422879
The defense also questioned why investigators at the scene did not collect [SWAT Officer] Black’s clothing and equipment and why he was allowed to bring them to Gaffney several days later.
“That’s an example of professional courtesy,” Silva said.
Defense plans to call as witnesses every officer who was as the shooting scene did not materialize. The court denied defense requests to call officers, who in police interviews called the shooting “friendly fire” and who said another officer’s hand was on the rifle when it was fired.
A Lib3ertarian is for the unrestricted sale of drugs as long as it isn’t regulated by the government.